The port admiral, by the author of 'Cavendish'. |
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... winds . A visible tremor crept over his frame , the colour sank from his hueless cheek , the eye quivered , and his lips seemed invo- luntarily to open with intense and unutterable agony . Even the stern old Admiral seemed struck with ...
... winds . A visible tremor crept over his frame , the colour sank from his hueless cheek , the eye quivered , and his lips seemed invo- luntarily to open with intense and unutterable agony . Even the stern old Admiral seemed struck with ...
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... wind - on big rock - no dock for ten year ! Massa Amiral , suppose you knock a caulky iron . on her ben , it go into head ! rotten , rotten ! -No say your ship no good ship , berry good ship ten year go , not now ; suppose you go to sea ...
... wind - on big rock - no dock for ten year ! Massa Amiral , suppose you knock a caulky iron . on her ben , it go into head ! rotten , rotten ! -No say your ship no good ship , berry good ship ten year go , not now ; suppose you go to sea ...
Էջ 47
... winds , and left its own burnished effulgence to supply the place . Then the mimic waves merrily danced , as if enjoying the breeze that ushered in the day , and delighting in the splendour of those beams that heralded its approach ...
... winds , and left its own burnished effulgence to supply the place . Then the mimic waves merrily danced , as if enjoying the breeze that ushered in the day , and delighting in the splendour of those beams that heralded its approach ...
Էջ 66
... wind . A shrill pipe was then heard , followed by the hoarse cry of the boatswain , " All hands shorten sail . " , " Douse the glim , boy , " said Græme - the lamp was blown out , and a general rush was made towards the quarter - deck ...
... wind . A shrill pipe was then heard , followed by the hoarse cry of the boatswain , " All hands shorten sail . " , " Douse the glim , boy , " said Græme - the lamp was blown out , and a general rush was made towards the quarter - deck ...
Էջ 77
... wind again sprung up , the heavens put on their angriest and most portentous aspect , as evening approached , and the dark purple clouds were rapidly whirled along their course . On sounding the well at three P. M. the water was found ...
... wind again sprung up , the heavens put on their angriest and most portentous aspect , as evening approached , and the dark purple clouds were rapidly whirled along their course . On sounding the well at three P. M. the water was found ...
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Admiral's appeared arms arrived beauty beheld beneath Blunderbuss boat bosom breeze cabin Captain Bombast Captain Croiser Charlotte Chatty command countenance crew dark Davy Jones dear deck delight exclaimed fear feeling fellow forecastle gale gentle give Græme Grooves guns hand head heard heart honour hour instant lads Lady Sapphira latter light lips Longbow look Lord Falconer Marengo Margarita Margiée ment mind morning Mount Edgecumbe mutineers never night Nine-fathom officer once orlop deck party passed pause poop poor Port Admiral present Puff quarter-deck Ranno Rannolini reader replied returned Richard Salisbury round sail sailor scarcely scene seamen seemed seen ship ship's side Sir Richard sister smile soul spirit stood stranger sure taffrail Tarpaulin tell thee there's thing thou thought tion turned vessel voice walk waves wind young younker
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Էջ 273 - Wilt thou have this Man to thy wedded husband, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony? Wilt thou obey him, and serve him, love, honour, and keep him in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all other, keep thee only unto him, so long as ye both shall live?
Էջ 59 - When youthful Love, warm-blu.shing strong, Keen-shivering shot thy nerves along, Those accents, grateful to thy tongue, Th' adored Name, I taught thee how to pour in song, To soothe thy flame "I saw thy pulse's maddening play, Wild send thee Pleasure's devious way. Misled by Fancy's meteor ray, By Passion driven; But yet the light that led astray, Was light from Heaven.
Էջ 63 - Grace was in all her steps. Heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.
Էջ 88 - There was in him a vital scorn of all : As if the worst had fall'n which could befall, He stood a stranger in this breathing world, An erring spirit from another hurled...
Էջ 245 - Nor public flame, nor private dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine Lo, thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Էջ 240 - Oh for a tongue to curse the slave, Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might...
Էջ 231 - Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools, the pageant of a day ; So perish all whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others
Էջ 67 - Thy throne had still been thine, or never been; For daring made thy rise as fall : thou seek'st Even now to re-assume the imperial mien, And shake again the world, the thunderer of the scene!
Էջ 88 - A thing of dark imaginings, that shaped By choice the perils he by chance escaped ; But 'scaped in vain...
Էջ 275 - tis thine to cleanse his heart From every gross, unholy part ; Thine, in domestic solitude, To win him to be wise and good ; His pattern, guide, and friend, to be, To give him back the heaven he forfeited for thee.